You and Me Learn All About HTTP
summary
Live demos use Chrome or Firefox developer tools showing requests to github.com in the network tab, revealing a 102.60 ms per-request baseline and how sending three concurrent requests via pipelining cuts total load time. Covers concrete request shapes: HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), required/optional/custom headers, and how custom headers migrate into the spec. Explains HTTPS as TLS layered over HTTP and that HTTP runs over TCP, with hands-on inspection proving each claim.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 0:25What is HTTP
- 1:07Breaking down HTTP acronym
- 2:13Hands-on exploration with dev tools
- 3:37Request response process
- 4:19HTTP methods and verbs
- 5:42HTTP headers explained
- 7:07Extensibility of HTTP
- 8:13HTTP pipelining for performance
- 9:59Security with HTTPS
- 10:41HTTP in the network stack
- 12:32Fast facts about HTTP
- 14:41Q&A
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